Replaying Chris Christie's Epic Anti-Boehner Meltdown

Earlier today, in what can only be summarized as an epic meltdown, NJ governor Chris Christie proceeded with an even more epic rant against House speaker John Boehner, in narrow terms, and House Republicans in broader, for killing the $60 billion Sandy Assistance bill, whose funding would have offset one full year of the just legislated tax hikes on the rich which would add $62 billion annually to the Treasury (or alternatively would have been unfundable for the next 2 months while the US struggles to pay its mandatory bills courtesy of having breached the debt ceiling). Alternatively, all Americans could just agree to accept less welfare and entitlement benefits to show their solidarity for New Jersey and fund the recovery of the Tristate area by a "shared sacrifice" instead of going the default route and demanding even more deficit spending - something that would naturally saddle the next generation with even more pain, not the current, far more entitled one - but in this country that is an absolutely ludicrous proposition. Below is a clip of the entire Christie performance which is a must see for sheer indignation entertainment value alone.

While we understand Christie's frustration and escalation in what is obviously a personal vendetta between the two men, as so often happens, much was left unsaid. For example the fact that the proposed bill was also chock full of pork spending such as:

$150 million in funding for fisheries in Alaska,

$5.3 billion to the Army corps of engineers,

$56.8 million for charting the debris from last year's Japanese tsunami,

One of the big objections to the bill was that Senate Democrats had filled it with pork.

In fact, "Democrats expanded the legislation during a mark-up to include not just areas affected by Sandy, but also to provide money for 'storm events that occurred in 2012 along the Gulf Coast and Atlantic Coast within the boundaries of the North Atlantic and Mississippi Valley divisions of the Corps that were affected by Hurricanes Sandy and Isaac,'" we reported previously.

The expansion of the bill was a way to provide a financial incentive for senators from red states--"two Republicans senators from Alabama, Mississippi, and Texas, and the one Republican senator from Louisiana"--to vote for the bill. "The Sandy kickbacks provide an incentive for those Republicans to vote on the bill," we wrote.

Yet, the war may already be lost by Boehner. The Hill reports that the first thing sacrificed by Boehner is what he prized himself in most: one-on-one talks with Obama - those are now over.

Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) is signaling that at least one thing will change about his leadership during the 113th Congress: He’s telling Republicans he is done with private, one-on-one negotiations with President Obama.

During both 2011 and 2012, the Speaker spent weeks shuttling between the Capitol and the White House for meetings with the president in the hopes of striking a grand bargain on the deficit.

Those efforts ended in failure, leaving Boehner feeling burned by Obama and, at times, isolated within his conference.

In closed-door meetings since leaving the “fiscal cliff” talks two weeks ago, lawmakers and aides say the Speaker has indicated he is abandoning that approach for good and will return fully to the normal legislative process in 2013 — seeking to pass bills through the House that can then be adopted, amended or reconciled by the Senate.

"He is recommitting himself and the House to what we've done, which is working through regular order and letting the House work its will,” an aide to the Speaker told The Hill.

The shift could have immediate ramifications as Congress heads into its next showdown over raising the debt ceiling and replacing steep automatic cuts to defense and domestic spending that are now set to take effect in March. It will also impact other presidential priorities like immigration reform and gun control.

Republican lawmakers say they expect the House majority to draft and pass its own debt-ceiling proposal, which would then add pressure on the Democratic leadership in the Senate.

For Boehner in particular, it will be easier said than done.

What this means is that the debt ceiling debate, which culminates in 59 days, is now open for everyone, and as a result the compromise will be that much more difficult.

Boehner and his aides have said the Speaker remains committed to a principle he first articulated in 2011 — that any increase in the debt limit must be accompanied by spending cuts and reforms that exceed the amount of new borrowing authority.

The Speaker is also expected to resist Obama’s push for another increase in taxes to offset the restoration of spending cuts from sequestration. “As far as we're concerned, the tax issue is off the table,” the Boehner aide said.

The influential editorial page of the Wall Street Journal on Wednesday urged Boehner to “from now on cease all backdoor negotiations and pursue regular legislative order.” Linking to the article, a top adviser to Boehner posted on Twitter: “That’s the plan.”

Another aide cautioned that Boehner is not cutting off all contact with the president. "It doesn't mean the Speaker isn't going to meet with the president or talk to the president" when appropriate, the aide said.

Duncan said he was encouraged by Boehner’s commitment in recent days to return to “regular order,” saying it was imperative that the House not simply accept bills driven by Democrats in the White House and the Senate.

If anything, the sudden change in Boehner's MO will simply mean that it will be more complicated to mask the fact that when it comes to spending and deficits, the two parties are really one. But if it does indeed lead to more openness and transparency at least the myth of a more democratic process may return for a few more weeks.

It will also make the next season of Congressional theater, that which picks up in 2013 with a focus on the Debt Ceiling where the 2012 Fiscal Cliff season left off, that much more exciting and dramatic. Just as intended.

Payback for him all but blowing Obama after sandy rolled through. Christie is pretty much single handidly to blame for 4 more years of the bungler. Let him call his pal in Hawaii to have him ask his buds on Wall Street to float jersey a loan for the repairs. I hear they are good for it. Why should the rest of America pick up the tab on a bunch of mostly annoying fucks with obnoxious accents that primarily vote for democrats anyway? Decisions got consequences bitches and payback is a mofo. Maybe boner can tell Christie to go fuck himself like he did with Reid. That's about the only thing boner ever did that I approve of.

I know for real he got mad rolled by the bamster and he doesn't even know it. And Christie has the nerve to blame his OWN party for this shit. What a joke. Just when you think the guy can't fuck his own party anymore he goes and outdoes himself again. I swear to GOD I'm sick and fucking tired of RINOs. Either be a dem or not be a dem. Stop being a dem in repub clothing.

Hey fat boy send out the tax folks to collect from all the folks working for cash fixing the places that should never have been built in the first place. You allowed building 20 yards from the beach and you now complain. Sell some bonds and fix it yourself.

Objections aside on whether you agree or disagree on the "relief" bill. I think the major take-away from this is how these clowns just cannot pass up an opportunity to fold in their spending addiction, no matter what the intended bills purpose is for. I mean, they just cannot help themselves. What an epic disgrace our political situation has become. Just when I start to think it cannot get any worse, they prove me wrong.

You know, there's a part of me that says "Screw it, we're going bankrupt, but someone keeps sending us new credit cards so I'm going shopping - gonna buy me a big pile of new iCrap, some HD 70" plasma, a massive pron library, the works."

To heck with it. The generation that is most immediately to be screwed by this farce (the 20-somethings) voted in huge numbers to re-elect the taupe messiah, so lube-up, kids. You voted for an eternity of debt-slavery. My generation (the 40-somethings) were too busy doing whatever to stand-up to our parents (the 60-somethings) who inflated this disaster into a full-blown planet-killing plague of debt.

Congress voted for a pay raise, voted for the pork in the bill and voted against paying for a rebuilding effort from Hurricane Sandy.

Interesting. NJ is going to look like shit for years to come. Nobody is going to carry the costs. The state is broke or near broke like the rest. People are not going to invest into rebuilding unless there's some payback down the road.

When Christie isn't busy jerking off to Michele Brown pix he keeps on computer, or visiting the Bristol Myers Squibb wing of his vacation home, he contemplates the politics of "they're not talking about me" and thus, this is what we get.

Screams (or is it squeals...it is always hard to tell through his leather mask with the mouth zipper) for "passing the bill" no matter the content are good for wall to wall coverage for him and his fucktard buddy Pete "Never met a Mooslim I like much" King.

Today a publicity whore stooged as a leader and tomorrow...myocardial infarction.

Christy has a point. When we start paying for everyone else what excuse do we use to stop. I don't think they should get any welfare but we have given so much to so many how can we justify stopping now. Not without a fight anyway.

I don't really understand the problem because I know that 90% of the damage was covered by insurance and probably over insured. I was in the industry for 12 years and worked the Andrew hurricane. I personally wrote out a million in a one week period. I was there for two 4 week stints with a major carrier. There is plenty of money there to handle this mess. That is why we have insurance, right? Christy just wants his fair share. He figures the other govenors hit the lottery when they got busted with a hurricane so why can't he get his? I agree with that logic.

If the republicans want to swim with these sharks they had better wise up or they are done. Hell, they many be done anyway. The Kenyan from Chicago is here and here to stay. You can feel the change in his attitude since he won his second term. He thinks he's a damn king. It will take more that the wimpy boy Speaker to deal with his crooked ass. We need someone like Gingrich to step up and have some back bone to tell Idi Amin "NO!" and damn well mean it. Don't see that happening anytime soon. This is only going to get uglier.

Gingrich is a CFR member with Bill Clinton. He and Romney were owned by Sheldon Adelson (Las Vegas Sands). Gingrich was in there to keep Santorum from beating Romney. Romney stole MI, OH, WI and a few others from Santorum. The late evening theft was identical to what Obama did to Romney. It all happened in the cities.

Hussein thinks he is king now. He can rig any election now. Allen West might have stood up to the king but they made sure to steal his election.

Sorry, we're fighting terrorists in Afghanistan to keep the Jersey shore safe, support the troops, stop your bitching and pitch a tent - do your patriotic duty. Money for shells, not shelter 'cause we're fighting them over there so we don't have to fight them in Sandy Beach....

I am getting lots of pissed off people walking away from me lately ( which is fine ). I told them this would happen. I told them you know how you only live on a bay and don't like the millionaires on the ocean. Well guess what the people who live in a swamp, a dust bowl and the desert don't like you. That's how it goes. These dopes in NJ are shocked.

Christie on the other hand, I must say, the events of the past 3 months have been setting up nicely for him in terms of being the populist politican for a future 2016 run. It will be interesting if these comments come back to bite him in the ass from the GOP Establishment (who holds the cash...and thus.....the power).

Not long ago this guy was attacking the Union thugs who teach school and getting rave reviews for his efforts to silence these union budget busters.

Now he appears to have gone over to the "Dark Side" by praising a Black Kenyan Muslim extremist socialist". That this former Hero of the Right could go so off the rails has sealed his fate in the Republican party.

I think this Fat Boy has become history. Hillary Clinton may get a break as the FOX news crew will be totally occupied with the assault on this turncoat who sucks up to the Kenyan for money. A whore by any other name.

Sort of funny actually! Seeing so many people trying to come to terms with this former Hero turning into a complete traitor. As Reagan said "Do not speak ill of another Republican" Like the former Communist Party of the Soviet Union, "The Party demands Loyalty to the agenda of the party." The fat boy has broken Reagan's and Lenin's cardinal rule of party loyalty above all else. His fate is sealed.

Christie and Bohner look like they have pms and cry like little girls. If Christie started useing Boehner's tanning gell they could go steady. A marriage of democrats and republicans behaving like the Kardasians.

While we understand Christie's frustration and escalation in what is obviously a personal vendetta between the two men, as so often happens, much was left unsaid. For example the fact that the proposed bill was also chock full of pork spending such as: $150 million in funding for fisheries in Alaska, $5.3 billion to the Army corps of engineers, $56.8 million for charting the debris from last year's Japanese tsunami, $41 million for eight military bases including Guantanamo Bay $100 million for the federal Head Start day care program, $188 million for new Amtrak lines (not repair, new lines) $20 million for a nationwide "water resources priorities study", $4 million for the ... Kennedy Space Center? And others.

OK, then take it out and pass whats just needed for the folks in NY/NJ (hell, I dont mind the Southern states either) to help settle with damages, claims, in-need supplies, and to help state governments to pay bills for infastructure.

The fact A) the pork was put in there and B) not acknowledged by Democrats (who put it in there) or Republicans (who have to call the bill to the floor for it to be voted on) was because C) no one wanted to discuss the bill due to the fact that D) the Presidency, no matter who it is, along with Congress......... has absolutely no fucking balls to cut the bullshit.

Folks, whe nyou are up in the clouds like me, when you view the shit over the last five days, this is why our government fails at life..................and why it is so obvious that they, with the oligarchs, burn this place to the fucking ground.

This may be the scenic route to depopulation and redevelopment of once residential property. Gaining access to prime real estate at bottom dollar prices is on the other side of these disasters. Who is purchasing the land, foreign investors/industrialists. Displacing the people through war can be done by destroying their villages and infrastructure benefits an agenda that is unfolding before our eyes. Monopolization is placing all the jewels the planet has into the hands of a group of men who are hidden from the view we have.

Idle No More is in movement up north. It is a matter of interest that no cops/riot teams showed up. If I thought about it with the information I only partially know, it would be because the site of a force pushing the native inhabitants off the ground they were vanquished to in the first place is going too far. Theresa Spence, First Nation's chief has been on a 20 day hunger strike waiting to meet with S. Harper, who has refused to acknowledge her existance.

This aint no disco. We are facing extinction via inability to obtain/retain the necessities of modern day life (shelter/food). Checks will end. And the jobs are not coming back. FEMA camps are not for disaster victims apparently. You need to stop and think for a minute about the possiblity of ending up like this:

Internally displaced people due to drug wars in Juarez, Mexico number at 230,000 in 2010. 26,400,00 people worldwide - have been displaced due to unbearable living conditions. Border detention camps in EU are at full capacity.

This is by design. I look at everything as being connected. It's a cat and mouse game and I believe they throw crumbs, to amuse themselves. Out of touch with reality, so powerful they can buy or ruin anyone into cooperation or take them off the map entirely, one way or another.

Who is an IDP?
IDP is short for “internally displaced person”. Some 26 million people worldwide currently live in situations of internal displacement as a result of conflicts or human rights violations. They were forced to flee their homes because their lives were at danger, but unlike refugees they did not cross international borders. Although internally displaced people now outnumber refugees by two to one, their plight receives far less international attention.

Many IDPs remain exposed to violence and other human rights violations during their displacement. Often they have no or only very limited access to food, employment, education and health care. Large numbers of IDPs are caught in desperate situations amidst fighting or in remote and inaccessible areas cut-off from international assistance. Others have been forced to live away from their homes for many years, or even decades, because the conflicts that caused their displacement remained unresolved. " (edited to add link - I proof my comment after I post it :P

Hey NJ, NY and Conn go to Wall Street and your Hedge Funds to fund your recovery and rebuilding. What about your insurance you are suppose to have? I do not want or should pay for their problem. Enough is Enough. Throw in the pork and the whole bill I hope would be defeated since alot of spending is not related at all to any storm damage.

The ravings of that fat petulant whore make me sick. In 2003 the Cedar fire was ignited 5 miles from my house. After burning more than 300,000 acres, 2000 homes and killing 16 people it was ranked the largest destructive fire in CA history. We were without power for 3 months. Luckily we had a generator, food storage and had enough propane to get by due to careful rationing. A few of our neighbors lost their homes. Unfortunately most were underinsured. No government programs helped them. Some managed to rebuild but others had no other choice but bankruptcy. The FEMA stories i heard were terrible. In 2007 the Witch creek fire started 10 miles from my home and was the second largest fire in CA history. It displaced 900,000 people and 500,000 were under mandatory evacuation ( we were included but ah, we tend to ignore stuff like this) which exceeded Katrina. My husband and I managed to get our generator to help a friend who managed to save his house by violating mandatory evac. All others who complied lost their homes. Once again the "government aid" stories were legendary, so much fraud and red tape... some things never change. Bottom line is we live in a fire prone area. Therefore we prepare for the inevitable and, no, I don't expect the government to save my ass if it gets burnt. Perhaps those living in the Sandy devastation need to make their own assessments...prepare for a repeat in the future or relocate. Is this just too difficult? Too pragmatic? Have we really turned into a nation of helpless, wining spoiled brats? Well...I think it's time for a drink.

You are ABSOLUTELY RIGHT about the theme of being self sufficient and prepared for the worst ( even expecting it ) ; and I live within a 1/2 mile of the Atlantic Ocean in central New Jersey. This habit of phoning home to THE FEDERAL RESERVE ( masquerading as The Federal Government ) after every natural disaster has to stop. The country cannot afford the vig to THE FEDERAL RESERVE , a private banking cartel.

Ok I'm tired of this fear of math that seems to permeate....we have this official Plos One study that is full on done with MRI testing and so forth about the fear of math creating physical pain. It's time we start stuffing members of congress into MRI's so we can diagnose this and fix them:) I know this is satire here but darn if might not help out <grin>. Some members just could be Algo Duped beyond repair and as a country we need to know that:) We have already been duped with Barbara Walters asking Chris Christie if his weight is an obstruction to do his job...good response by the way on his part.

Let's reach out and fix these folks as they can't make laws with financial reform this way, Wall Street overcame their fear of math...well if they ever had it to begin with:) Now they need some “real” technology to work together and start with the same numbers…like IBM Watson and even the lowest denominator we elect with tech knowledge with speech recognition can participate and the thing processes 3 millions pages in about 2 seconds so they can start modeling law for goodness sakes. In the meantime banks wipe all the fannies.

Not much a rant. Would be a lot cooler if the heart doctor hadn't told him to chill out or have a heart attack. Furthermore........just spewing bullshit so he can get in the presidency and fuck everyone. Fuck politicians all these motherfuckers are evil and bought off.

Christie you ignorant slut! Just Shut the fuck up You whiny bitch. I didn't hear you mention Obummer when you ticked off your little list. You were quick enough to mention the Bushes, but some how Obummer holds no responsibility. Maybe you are just sucking the wrong dick.

What he shouild have said was, "Hey guys, why don't you strip out the pork from this bill and give us the true relief we really need." Instead, he just gives a wink and nod to the receipients of pork (knowing that his turn for pork will be coming soon). And then slams people for wanting to take a closer look at it.

If first fat pig wanted to assist the people instead of fighting the other fat pigs, then he would not have bent over for crypto-Communist Obama and others after Hurricane Sandy whereby the residents who pay the fat pig's way are still suffering, and he got stuffed by his new celebrity pals and fellow crypto-communists Democrats.

Same for you, CONgressman King. Do us a favor. Fuck off, and die.

Keep close to the Constitution, genuine community, guns,, gold, silver...and prepare to defend yourseslf against the venal pigs of federal politics; the liars, corporatists, fascists who exploit you, community and capitalism.

Chris Krispy Kreme can't even be bothered to salt or sand major interstate highways in advance of the post Christmas snowstorm, so I say screw him. Let him stew in his own juice and cut something else (like pensions) to pay for storm damage.

And forget the "debt ceiling". Obama will mint trillion dollar Pt coins if Congress fails to raise it. A non-event.

The fat pig is stuffed full of pork pies (lies), and shows his orifice to anyone that will fill his pocket, plural.

Die, bitch Christie, liar, no different than Corzine former governor of New Jersey, ex Goldman Sacks chairsatan, and the 'go to guy' on finance according to Obama and serial crook Biden of tax exempt Delaware - before Corzine fcd MF Global and paid back JP Morgue.

Christie has been humiliated by those he trusted, and they despise him more than those who elected him. No one likes a traitor loser. Christie is a fat pig loser, a chancer, willing to open his orifices to anyone that pleases him. Goodbye, fat pig.

Um..the Army Corps of Engineers is the type of people that do alot of this sort of work. They had a plan for New Orleans for decades, didn't get built, Katrina happens, and is Bush's fault (along with every administration since at least that plan was created, and of course since it still hasn't really been implemented, every future one as well...though at least something was done).

There was another plan that was making the rounds a few years ago in regards to NY and NJ regarding just this sort of Sandy occurrence. Would of cost $20 billion or so. Oops. Christie gave no play on it. Bloomberg didn't. Obama didn't.

So in a sense Christie is just as much as fault as Boehner is. He had a chance to champion coastal defenses with a good plan, but didn't. Whoops. But OK, now it's AFTER the incident. Well it does need to happen, and the Army Corps of Engineers isn't pork, that's the meat of the rebuilding.

The rest listed is pork, but funding the ACOE to do their jobs in fixing and upgrading after Sandy is well, what is needed. People need to stop thinking via the rules of monetarism, aka not what the founding fathers set up here in America (it's what it devolved into). It's the mindset they were escaping from. This is an instance where you utter credit, and tangible needed shit gets built. But hey we didn't utter 20 billion when we needed to, now we need to borrow 60 billion (for a half ass job inside of a bullshit monetary system). Same thing with New Orleans and other areas.

Mentions some poor New Jerseyians were without power some as long as 14 days. F you! When I lived in Florida - we were without power for 14 days and some people waited longer.

We did not tell the good ole boys from the SE power companies and from all over that they had to join the ******g union like NJ did. We had power companies from as far as Canada. They were all the salt of the earth working dawn til dusk and into the night.

I bet a lot of things are still not fixed because NJ and Christie want union scale on any projects. Idiots. NJ and NY have some of the biggest insurance companies. Let them and reinsure maven pay for it. Go find the $1.5 billion that the former NJ Gov Corzine stole. Cut back on the taxpayer money Senator Menendez uses to pay for and stiff underaged prostitutes.

If Mr. Fat Ass wouldn't have given Obama a blowjob, on his knees begging for money like a frickin loser, then Romney would be President. We'd still be in a hell of a mess, but that selfish fat fucker put HIMSELF and his hatred of Romney over everythng else. Fuck that fatty, and NO bailout money for the dumbasses living in their seaside resort towns. fuck 'em!

So this has got to be the fastest transition between parties in history huh? From GOP convention keynote speaker to raging lib in under 10 weeks. Is he under the impression that the federal government is required to bailout a bankrupt state that failed to budget for weather emergencies? Or that admitting that he thought he had an illegal arrangement with congress to siphon tax payer funds is going to garner him empathy from the very people he purports to victimize?

The kind of man who wants the government to adopt and enforce his ideas is always the kind of man whose ideas are idiotic - H.L. Mencken

What happened to people at least having the dignity and respect to show up with their hats in hand and ask for help instead of demanding your money?

Hey now, the fisheries in Alaska will increase the Salmon tail fin flaps per year, which will increase Pacific ocean flow southward, whilch will circulate southward, pushing colder water northward, which will prevent Nor'easter's.

I'm working on a Federal Grant for $12 million to study this, please contact your CONgres-persons.

Boehner and the Teapublicans are paper tigers. They huff and puff then and then at the last possible moment invariably roll over and give up. This has happened at least four times on budget negotiations in the past couple of years.